Countries currently represented in our lab:


Nikolaus Rajewsky
Group Leader

Alex Tschernycheff
Rajewsky Lab Office

Genetic Engineering Work, Radiation Protection, Safety Officer, Animal Experimentation, Financial & Lab Management

Margareta Herzog
Lab Manager

Denise Aigner
Ph.D. Student

Salah Ayoub
Technical Assistant

Computational Biology, scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics, Neuroblastoma

Florian Bartsch
Ph.D. Student

Translational Research, Neuroblastoma, Melanoma, Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Svea Beier
Ph.D. Student

Organoids, Non-Coding RNA, Neuronal Function

Poojashree Bhaskar
Ph.D. Student

Anastasiya Boltengagen
Technical Assistant

Fabio Bordin
Postdoctoral Researcher

Giuliana Dube
Technical Assistant

Matilde Ercolano
M.Sc. Student

Cledi Cerda Jara
Postdoctoral Researcher

Genetic Engineering, hiPSCs, Brain Organoids, microRNAs, Gene Regulation

Lisa Emmenegger
Ph.D. Student

Hangxi Fu
Ph.D. Student

Computational Biology, Charité pediatric oncology unit

Marvin Jens
Computational Biologist

scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics, Methods Development

Nikos Karaiskos
Senior Scientist

Daniel León Perinán
Ph.D. Student

Paula Leupold
Ph.D. Student

Cancer Biology, In vivo / In vitro Tumor Models, Biomarkers

Kamil Lisek
Postdoctoral Researcher

Single-cell & Spatial Transcriptomics, Tumor Microenvironment, Brain Organoids, Disease Mechanisms

Tancredi Pentimalli
Ph.D. Student

Nicolas Morando
Ph.D. Student

Lena Marie Schott
Technical Assistant

Flavia Scoyni
Postdoctoral Researcher

Leon Strenger
Ph.D. Student

Ilan Theurillat
Postdoctoral Researcher

Gwendolin Thomas
Technical Assistant

Jan Trendelenburg
M.Sc. Student

Cancer Biology, Bacteria in Cancer, Methods Development

Sofia Trocchianesi
Postdoctoral Researcher

Miriam Wandres
Ph.D. Student

Mohammad Zardbani
Postdoctoral Researcher

Former members

  • Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Jonathan Alles was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Petar Glazar was a Ph.D. Student and Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Aristotelis Misios was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Samantha Praktiknjo was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Marcel Schilling was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Janis Hötzel was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Monika Piwecka was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Mireya Plass Pórtulas was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Christin Sünkel (née Stottmeister) was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Kathrin Theil was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Panagiotis Papavasileiou was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Christine Kocks was a Senior Scientist.
  • Vera Zywitza was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Sebastian Memczak was a Ph.D. Student and Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Benedikt Obermayer was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Andrei Filipchyk was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Marta Rodriguez-Orejuela was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Luisa Schreyer was a Technical Assistant.
  • Jordi Solana Garcia was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Filippos Klironomos was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Catherine Adamidi was a Senior Scientist.
  • Kevin Chen was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Antigoni Elefsinioti was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Marc Friedländer was a Ph.D. Student and Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Stefanie Grosswendt was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Dominic Grün was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Andranik Ivanov was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Anna-Carina Rajewsky (née Jungkamp) was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Toshiaki Kogame was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Azra Krek was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Svetlana Lebedeva was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Jonas Maaskola was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Sebastian Mackowiak was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Pinar Önal was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Lena von Oertzen was a Technical Assistant.
  • Marlon Stoeckius was a Ph.D. Student and Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Nadine Thierfelder was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Francesca Torti was a Ph.D. Student.
  • Ulrike Ziebold was a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • Minnie Zhou Fang was a Postdoctoral Researcher.